Burial at Sea

Object NamePhotograph

Association USS Intrepid (CV/CVA/CVS-11)

DateOctober 29, 1944

PeriodWorld War II

Mediumphotographic paper

ClassificationsCommunication Artifacts

Credit LineCollection of the Intrepid Museum P00.2021.05.01

Object numberP00.2021.05.01

DescriptionPhotograph, Black and white; Official horizontal image of a burial at sea on USS Intrepid on the hangar deck. There are sailors in dungaree work uniforms lined at attention in the background with a group of four sailors in dress white uniforms carrying a flag covered coffin toward the edge of the deck. The pallbearers have dark skin. The garage door to the hangar is open, and there are more sailors in dress white uniforms with a priest or minister in a black robe looking at the approaching coffin. The sea is calm around the ship. There is a white border around the image.

Copy of photo not accessioned has a stamp on the back that reads "No. CV11-1044 Date 10-2944 // Unit // Made For // Subject Burial service for // men killed in tub #10" handwritten and printed in black ink.

This may be the burial of James Taylor, one of the gunners in Gun Tub 10. He died of his wounds and was buried in a separate ceremony, after the rest of the men killed in that attack had been buried.

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